Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-14

Tabernacle this morning, Inc Kew. ]. De-
Witt Talmage, ID, eXpOuuded apprO-
pirate passages of Scripture. He then
gave out the hymn beginning:
Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And az The world go free
No! there's u cross for eve Y one,
And there's a cross fer me.
The subject of his discourse was Sting
ing AnnOyance6, and his text, DeuterOnO-
my vii, 20: the Lord thy God
will send the hornet" He said:
It seems as if the insect world were
determined TO war against the human
race. 1t is every year attacking the grain
fields and the orchards and the vineyards.
The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grass
hopper, the New Jersey locust, the uni
velsal potatOe destroyer, seem to carry
on the work which was begun ages ago
when the insects buZZed cut of NOah'5
ark as the door was opened.
IN my text the hornet h.es out on its
mission. LIS
SPECIES OF WASP,
swift in its motion and violent IN Its
sting. It's touch IS torture to man or
beast. We nave all seen the cattle run
believing from the cut Of its lancet. In
boVhood we ueed to stand cautiously
looking at the gIObular nest hung from
the tree branch, anG while We were
looking 81 the wonderful paste-bOard
covering we were struck with something
that sent Us shrieking away. The hornet
goes in swarms. 1t has captains over
hundreds, and twenty of them attacking
one man will produce certain de2th. The
Persians attempted to conquer Christian
CITY, but the Il tpnants and the beasts on
WbiCs the PersiAnS rode were assaulted
by the hornet, so that the whole army
was broken up and the besieged city was
rescued. This burning and nOXiOus in
sect stung out the Hittites and Canaan
ties from their country. What the gleam-
ing sword anG chariot Of war could not
accomplish was done by the puncture OF
sn insect. The Lord sent the hornet.
My friends when we are assaulted by
benemoths Of troublr-2reat behemOths
Of trOuble-We become chivairic, and we
assault them; We get on the hIgh-mettleC
steed Of our courage, and make cavalry
charge st them, ana, if God be with US
we come ont stronger aud better thar
when we went IL. But, alas for these in.
sectile annoysnCes of life-these foes toe
small to ShOot-Jhese things without any
ayOirdUpOis Weight-the gusts, and the
midges, and the lies, and the wasps, anC
the hornets. In other words, it is the SINAI
singing annOYanceS OF our our life which
drive US out and use Us up. Into the
pest conditioned life, for some grand anC
glorious purpose, God sends the hornet
remark in the first place, that these
small singing anuOyanCes may come il
the shape of sensitive nervous organ
izatiOn. People who are proStrateC
under
TYPHOID FEvERS
or with broken bones get plenty Of sym
psthy, but who pities anybody that is
nervous? The doctor says, and the fam.
lily says, and everybody says, "Oh! she's
only a little nerVOuS-that'S ALL" The
sound Of heavy foot, the harsh clearing
of throat, q disCOrd in music, want OF
harmony between the shawl and the
glove on the same person, curt answer
passing slight. the wind from the east
auy one of 900 aunOganceS, opens the
door for the hornet. The fact is that the
vast maj )rity of the people in this
country are Over-WOrded, and theiI
nerves are the first to give out. a grea
multitude are under the strain of Leyden
who, when he was told by his physician
that if he did not stop working while ht
was in such poor physical health ht
would die, responded, doctor, whether
life or die she wheel must keep going
around" These persons of whom
speak have q bleeding senSitiVeneSs. The
dies love to light on anything raw, anC
these people are Ike the Canaanite:
spoken of in the text or in the context
they have very thin covering and art
vulnerable at all points. And the Lore
sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annOyanCeE
may come TO Us in the shape Of ends
and acquaintance who are always saying
disagreeable things. There are some
people you cannot be with for half al
1our but you feel cheered and COmforted
Then there are other people you CaDnO'
be with for five minutes before you fee
miserable. They DO not mean to dis
turb you, but they sting you TO the bone
They gather up all the yarn which the
gOssipS spin, and peddle it. They gather
up all the adverse criticisms
ABOUT YOUR PEPSON,
about your business, SDOUI' YOUR home
shout your church, and they make YOU
ear the funnel into which they pour it
They laugh heartily when they tell you
as though II were 3 good joke, and you
laugh toO-Outside. These people are
brought TO our attention in the Bible, il
the Book of Ruth: Naomi went forth
beautiful and with the finest of worldly
prospects into another land, but after
awhile she came back widowed, and sick
and poor. What did her friends do wher
she came back to the city? They all wen'
out, and, instead Of wing her common
sense consolation, what did they doi
Read the Book of Ruth and find out. They
threw up their hands and said, sis this
Naomi" as much IS to say, Chow very
bsd you look" When | entered the
ministry looked very pale for years, and
every year, for four Or five years.
100 times year was asked if I was not
IN a consumption. And passing through
the room would sometimes hear people
sigh and cry, "A-ah! not long for this
world" Iresolved in those times that
never, in any conversation, would say
anything depressing, and by the help OF
God have kept the resolution. These
people of when l speak reap and bind in
the great harvest field of Encouragement.
Some days you greet them with q hilarious
"Good morning." and they come buZzing
at you with some depressing information.
The Lord sent the hornet. 1t is aston
ishing how some people prefer to write
and to say disCgreesble things. That